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Hesham Shafick

Email: h.h.s.abdelbary@qmul.ac.uk Hesham Shafick Abdelbary profile photo

Research Topic: 

  • Non- violence, Distance & Innocence: Violence in Egypt’s non-violent revolution (2011-2013)
  • Viva passed with no corrections (April 2020)

Supervisor(s): 

Prof Kimberly Hutchings (QMUL), Prof Engin Isin (QMUL), & Dr Bryan Mabee (Gothenburg)

Examiners: 

Prof Laleh Khalili (QMUL), and Dr Omar Ashour (Exeter and Doha Institute)

Research Interests: 

Innocence, ignorance, nonviolence, bullshit, cognitive psychology, Egypt

Education/Professional Qualifications:

  • MSc Public Policy (with distinction), School of Public Policy, University College London, UK
  • BA, Political Science and Economics, American University in Cairo, Egypt
  • BA Dissertation, Department of Economics, Washington College, Maryland, USA

Awards and Grants:

  • Higher Education Academy (HEA) Associate Fellowship.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) PhD Research Studentship.
  • Economics and Social Research Council's (ESRC) London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP) Student-Led Activity Funding.
  • First Category Merit Scholarship for Academic Excellence, the American University in Cairo, 2006-2011.

Peer-reviewed publications:

Shafick, H. (2019). Acts of ignorance: how could Egypt's revolutionaries overlook a state massacre of 1000+ protestors? Interface: A Journal on Social Movements, 11(2): 35-62.

Teaching experience

  • Teaching Associate, School of Politics and International Relations, QMUL, 2017-2020

Courses taught: Political Analysis, Thinking Politically, Introduction to IR, Researching Everyday Politics, The Politics of the Post-Colonial Middle East, & International Security

  • PhD Seminar Co-Convener, ‘Doing International Political Sociology’, Cross-institutional Seminar Series, KCL, LSE, & QMUL
  • Assistant Lecturer, School of Business, Economics and Political Science, The British University in Egypt, 2014-2015

Courses taught: Democratic Politics, Political Sociology, Development, & Intro to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Department activities

  • PGR Representative, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London.
  • Graduate Student Representative: ‘anti-casualization’ campaign, University College Union (UCU)
  • Academic Co-Advisor, ‘De-colonise Queen Mary’ Student Society.
  • Founding Convenor, ‘Ignorance, Agnotology, and (non)knowledge’ Reading Group & ‘International Political Sociology’ Research group, ‘Edward Said’ Reading Group, University of London (cross-institutional), UK

Link to academia:

qmul.academia.edu/HeshamShafick

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